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In response to U.S. media reports that the U.S. military had taken TSMC engineers away from Taiwan when a war broke out in the Taiwan Strait, Taiwan's Defense Minister Qiu Guozheng responded that the Taiwan military did not have such a military push script.
According to the United Daily News, Bloomberg previously quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that since Putin ordered the attack on Ukraine, the United States has made more and more plans and filings for mainland China to attack Taiwan. The various plans and filings emphasize the semiconductor chip industry represented by TSMC.
It is reported that the United States has conducted various military exercises, and the White House is even planning an emergency response plan for TSMC, considering sending a special plane to assist the evacuation of TSMC’s chip engineers, so as to re-replicate the TSMC model in other safe places, and if there is a war in Taiwan, it will also A "scorched earth war" was launched to destroy all TSMC facilities and prevent the mainland from obtaining chip technology.
Qiu Guozheng responded on Wednesday (October 12) that Taiwan has to rely on its own defense and does not expect any situation to happen, so the military has always exercised restraint to avoid the outbreak of war. There is a military push for the background, but so far there is no such script (the United States takes away TSMC engineers), "there is no such situation".
Qiu Guozheng was invited to attend the Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee of the Legislative Yuan in the morning to give a special report on the "Plan for the Construction of a New Generation of Navy Light Corvettes". In an interview before the meeting, he said that the Navy's Jiyang-class ships are indeed very old and have been in service for many years, but there are certain procedures for the establishment of the army. In the early days, the Navy has planned which ships to replace each year, and they are all carried out in accordance with the process. At present, this situation is urgent. Not only the Jiyang class, but also other ships, Kangding, Chenggong, etc., all need to be carried out step by step (update) year by year, but recently the military combat training is under great pressure and needs to be accelerated. The pace is fast, but it cannot be chaotic. The Ministry of Defense will grasp the principle.
As for the fact that the Ministry of National Defense seems to be expected to announce the extension of military service at the end of the year, Qiu Guozheng said that there are regulations that this matter must be announced for one year, and it must be announced on New Year's Day (announcement). There is this expectation, and I hope so.” The Ministry of Defense is also working in this regard.
